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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2003 No. 1518

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS

The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) (Amendment) Order 2003

  Made 12th June 2003 

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 12th day of June 2003

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by sections 2 and 13 of the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985[1], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

     1. This Order may be cited as the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) (Amendment) Order 2003.

     2. The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) (Amendment) Order 2001[2] is revoked.

     3. In the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986[3], for Schedules 1 and 2 there shall be substituted Schedules 1 and 2 set out in the Schedule to this Order.


A.K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council


SCHEDULE
Article 3


Schedules 1 and 2 substituted in the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986






EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order amends the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986 in order to add Belarus, Estonia, Fiji, Latvia, Peru, Uruguay and Uzbekistan to the list of Contracting States to the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, done at The Hague on 25th October 1980 (Cm. 33); and to add Latvia to the list of Contracting States to the European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions concerning Custody of Children and on Restoration of Custody of Children, signed at Luxembourg on 20th May 1980 (Cm. 191). The opportunity has also been taken to update the previous reference to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which is now called Serbia and Montenegro.

Notes:

 [1] 1985 c.60.back

[2] S.I. 2001/3923.back

[3] S.I. 1986/1159.back


ISBN 0 11 046511 3


 
© Crown copyright 2003
Prepared 24 June 2003

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